Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha...
by ctmlr on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:02AM
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Like ranking chess players on their scrabble game.
Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha...
by WalterBright on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:13PM
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I heard similar arguments about the SAT as a college entrance requirement. Lots of universities dropped it, including MIT. They found out that SAT scores really did correlate strongly with success at the university, and reinstituted the requirement.
It also reminds me of the "EE"s who carry around a card in their wallet with:
V = IR
I = V/R
R = V/I
> But it'll also deter the actual people you want in the team
All the FAANG companies do leetcode testing, so you can write off the high paying jobs.
Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha...
by marcus_holmes on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:33PM
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I wouldn't want to work in that kind of environment anyway. All that politics and bullshit <shudder>.
I guess that staying as a valid test then - if a company uses leetcode for its interviews, it's probably somewhere I don't want to work.
It's like "to get into Marine boot camp, there's a minimum crochet requirement".
Solving leetcode problems has nothing to do with commercial coding. It's an unrelated hoop that we make folks jump through, because it's easy to measure. It's like measuring developer productivity by LoC written.
Yes, it'll measure how much time the candidate spent preparing for the interview, and how well they can jump through hoops. But it'll also deter the actual people you want in the team, the folks who know that leetcode has nothing to do with commercial coding, and see the leetcode test as a sign that your organisation has no clue and a bad management culture.